Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1915 — ARTIST HONORED BY FRENCH [ARTICLE]

ARTIST HONORED BY FRENCH

“Hansi” Who Ridiculed German Control of Alsace-Lorraine, Gets Decoration. Paris.—The Alsatian caricaturist M. Waltz, who Is known as “Hansi,” has been decorated with the Legion of Honor. Some time before the war broke out “Hansi” was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment at Leipzig for cartoons he drew ridiculing everything German in Alsace-Lorraine. He escaped, however, and volunteered as an interpreter in the French army. He has been mentioned in dispatches for his courage and as being a splendid example for his comrades.